macOS 10.14.3 Update can't be installed on this disk...

I just downloaded the new version today and it is larger than the first one. This one is 2.51 GB and the original was 2.49 GB. I'm about to try it out and see if it works better this time.

By way of a (non-)update - I haven't heard back from Apple Engineering yet about any "fix". I'll try the new Combo updater later today.

The software update won't even work for me. It starts to download then goes straight back to the beginning. This is very frustrating.

Is there a fix for the full 10.14.x installer? I'm now stuck on 10.13.6 :(

Bobs

I found this is not offered through Software Update. But an XCode update is, and that update requires this version of OS X. @Apple?

Hey thank you suat.cini, that worked for me, too.

i've fixed countless misbehaving Macs by running combo updaters over the years!

The reason is that, by definition, combo updaters check all the changes since the original point release, not just the changes from .x to .y

You catch more bugs with a wider net, so to speak

i've fixed countless misbehaving Macs by running combo updaters over the years!

The reason is that, by definition, combo updaters check all the changes since the original point release, not just the changes from .x to .y

You catch more bugs with a wider net, so to speak

Running a combo update can fix certain kinds of problems. But no one was talking about fixing a problem. Just updating Mojave from one version to the next.

Regarding instructions being available to SMC reset, the instructions are not available when you can't use the computer to look them up because your bluetooth keyboard and mouse are disabled. That is what I am trying to say. Nothing more complicated than that.

I don't know what went wrong with the update that the Bluetooth was totally disabled after the update finished. I've never seen that happen before. I'm not sure it has anything to do with distribution checksums. The update was done using System Preferences > Software Update.

The problem goes beyond 10.14.3 Combo Update for me.

The update cannot be installed via Software Update, Combo Update or Recovery.

The only alternative would be to rebuild the startup disk from scratch. But then again is the disk the issue?

I am running 10.14.2 on a highend iMac (32GB RAM), and boot from an external 1TB SSD.

The SSD is formatted using HFS+ rather than APFS. We had too many problems with APFS in writing very large files, to date.

On the other hand, the 10.14.3 updater installed fine on my MacBook Pro.

Yes I have this problem too.

I've downloaded the installer 3 times, to no avail.

On the MacInTouch.com website a poster said that he waited several hours, re-downloaded the installer and it worked for him. Re-downloading the installer did not work for me.

I've never had this problem either, a bit disconcerting that Apple can't be trusted to get an update out correctly and then not fix the problem in a timely fashion.

Thanks.

Tried that, been there ... from various update and combo installers to full 10.14.3 installers from the App Store.

None will recognize the disk as either upgradeable or full new installable, nor most of my other disks.

I have an SSD, formatted, apparently, AFPS. It was running on 10.14.2 just fine this morning. It still is except now it has a wedged 10.14.3 Software Update that can't complete installing for who knows what reason. And the 10.14.3 Combo Update reports it can't be installed on this disk. So all this HFS Fusion drive noise doesn't apply to all of us.

All - I've raised a case with Apple and worked through some of the issues with their engineering team (thank you, Lyndon).

It appears that the previous approach of being able to apply the 10.14.3 Combo Updater to all previous versions of Mojave is no longer the case. Not sure whether Apple has recently changed their policy or whether this is an oversight on their part.

If you download the 10.14.3 Updater and apply this over 10.14.2 it should work fine. I appreciate that this means the Combo updater is no longer a catch-all for bring any Mojave version up to 10.14.3

I'm unsure whether this is going to result in a fresh Combo updater being delivered or not and I'm waiting to hear back from Apple engineering. I'll keep this thread updated as I hear.

In my previous post I neglected to mention that I was able to update both computers to Mojave using target disk mode, it installed fine and it runs perfectly. Installing Mojave did not solve the update issue, I am still using disk target mode to install updates.